The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated infection prevention recommendations in response to growing COVID-19 vaccination rates. The new guidance includes health care personnel in home health care settings.
 
Under the new guidance, fully vaccinated health care workers with higher-risk exposures who are asymptomatic do not need to be restricted from work for 14 days following their exposure, according to the CDC update March 10.
 
The CDC defines high risk exposures as a prolonged close contact with someone with COVID-19 when the health care worker was not wearing a respirator or facemask, eye protection (if the person with COVID-19 was not wearing a mask) or not wearing all personal protective equipment (PPE) required during an aerosol-generating procedure.
 
COVID-19 testing and PPE recommendations remain unchanged. Health care workers who have traveled should continue to follow CDC travel recommendations and requirements, including restriction from work, when recommended for any traveler.
 
 
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